A global lunch

Claire and the rest of her TEAm met us at St John's as planned today and then followed us back to our place for lunch. Hopefully they got a lot out of the sermon today on Genesis 4 and 'the sophistication of sin'. It was so nice to meet them all though, open our home to them and get to hear all about their time in NZ so far (7 weeks down, 3 to go). They are a really lovely group of people from different countries and different backgrounds but united in Christ. It's great to hear how God has encouraged and strengthened them in their time together. Aswell as the others on the programme, Shirley, one of their leaders, joined us too so it was good to hear from her about the idea behind TEA and how it all happens and stuff.

It turns out that one of the guys and Shirley may possible have met Jason back in August at OM's global orientation conference in the Netherlands before he headed off to Chile. Small world, eh?

Gees, it's windy outside. I now know what the three little pigs would have experienced.

I've got a busy week this week. Tomorrow and Tuesday is the staff induction programme where everyone who has joined in the past six months gets to hear from all the general managers about how their teams fit into the big picture. As part of that we're out to dinner tomorrow night. Then on Wednesday I fly up to Auckland before driving south a bit to Pukekohe for Thursday and Friday's Soils 101, Arable 101 and Animal Health 101 courses. I hope Joanne remembers to pick me up from the airport on Friday evening.